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<text>
<title>
Niue (NZ): Economy
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Niue
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: The economy is heavily dependent on aid from New Zealand.
Government expenditures regularly exceed revenues, with the shortfall
made up by grants from New Zealand - the grants are used to pay wages
to public employees. The agricultural sector consists mainly of
subsistence gardening, although some cash crops are grown for export.
Industry consists primarily of small factories to process passion
fruit, lime oil, honey, and coconut cream. The sale of postage stamps
to foreign collectors is an important source of revenue. The island
in recent years has suffered a serious loss of population because of
migration of Niueans to New Zealand.
</p>
<p>National product: GNP - exchange rate conversion - $2.1 million
(1989 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: NA%
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $1,000 (1989 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.6% (1984)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: NA%
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $5.5 million; expenditures $6.3 million, including
capital expenditures of $NA (FY85 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $175,274 (f.o.b., 1985)</l>
<l> commodities: canned coconut cream, copra, honey, passion fruit
products, pawpaw, root crops, limes, footballs, stamps,
handicrafts</l>
<l> partners: NZ 89%, Fiji, Cook Islands, Australia</l>
<l>Imports: $3.8 million (c.i.f., 1985)</l>
<l> commodities: food, live animals, manufactured goods, machinery,
fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs</l>
<l> partners: NZ 59%, Fiji 20%, Japan 13%, Western Samoa,
Australia, US</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $NA
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%
</p>
<p>Electricity: 1,500 kW capacity; 3 million kWh produced, 1,490 kWh
per capita (1990)
</p>
<p>Industries: tourist, handicrafts, coconut products
</p>
<p>Agriculture: coconuts, passion fruit, honey, limes; subsistence
crops - taro, yams, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes; pigs, poultry,
beef cattle
</p>
<p>Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $62 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 New Zealand dollar (NZ$)=100 cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: New Zealand dollars (NZ$) per US$1 - 1.9486
(January 1993), 1.8584 (1992), 1.7265 (1991), 1.6750 (1990), 1.6711
(1989), 1.5244 (1988)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March
</p></body></article></text>